I generally try to put my October through January lease starts on 18 month initial terms to better align with more favorable leasing periods when the units come back to market.

You could read 100 books and still need to learn more because certain things must be learned through trial and error.

If you're allowed to object and you're still within your objection period, you may want to review your title commitment for objectionable matters that may give you a right to terminate without penalty.

I never made more money than that time period.

You could read 100 books and still need to learn more because certain things must be learned through trial and error.

When you have enough data over a long period of time, there should be enough to generate a useful score. 3.

I could put a down payment for a conventional (20-25%) 550k duplex, but I feel it could hurt my chances of buying as many duplexes in a 5 year period (for example) if I go conventional VS an FHA at 3.5%. 

If you're tax bill is $6-8k (minus the 1031 fees), surely you can make that up by taking multiple swings over a longer period of time.OR pursue some sort of owner occupied strategy with that cash if you can swing a live in flip or house hack.

I've had some investments perform better than others but section 8 rentals were the one that were most challenging to sustainably operate and my worst performers over an extended period of time.

Never in the history of the Federal Reserve have prices gone down for any notable period of time.